Justin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Prior to joining CGD, he spent two years as an adviser to Tanzania's national statistics office and worked as a research officer at Oxford University's Centre for the Study of African Economies. He has also worked on a project with the Kenyan Ministry of Education to bring rigorous impact evaluation into the Ministry’s policymaking…
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Ezequiel is an Economist and the team leader for the SABER-Teachers program and Teach classroom observation tool within the Global Knowledge and Innovation Unit of the Education Global Practice. He works on measuring the quality of education service delivery and improving teachers’ classroom practices. In this capacity, he provides support to projects in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.…
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Thomas is the faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His work has spanned both K-12 and higher education, covering topics such as the design of school accountability…
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David Evans is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, working on education, health, and social safety nets. Previously he was at the World Bank, where he co-authored the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, coordinated impact evaluation work for sub-Saharan Africa, and managed education projects in Brazil. Evans has evaluated education, early…
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Tara co-leads the World Bank’s Teachers Thematic Group. She was part of the core team of the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise , and is currently leading South Asia’s regional flagship, Ready to Learn. Ready to Thrive . Tara also leads the World Bank’s longest-standing project in higher education, Technical Education Quality Improvement Project III (TEQIP III…
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Arti Grover, is a Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice and a co-author of the book on High-growth firms. She has extensive experience in working on complex analytical projects on a range of topics including firm dynamics, trade, productivity, entrepreneurship and spatial development. She is the author of two books on trade in services (published by the…
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Denis Medvedev is a lead economist in the Firm Capabilities and Innovation unit of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group. His current research interests focus on innovation and firm productivity, while his earlier work explored international trade, income distribution dynamics, and the Sustainable Development Goals. In his previous assignments at the…
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Cristina Fernández, focuses on integrating policymakers into startup ecosystems across the world, creating platforms for them to exchange ideas with other nations’ policymakers in order to identify the best ways to unleash entrepreneurship. In every initiative, she seeks to integrate the best research in the field to better guide policymaking. In every initiative, Cristina liaises closely with the policymakers and…
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Alex Coad, is Professor at CENTRUM-Católica Graduate Business School (Lima, Peru), and is interested in research areas of firm performance, entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation policy. Alex has published over 60 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Economica, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. According to Google-…
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Helen Durham has been Director of International Law and Policy at the ICRC since 2014. She has over 20 years experience in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Helen has been a Legal Adviser to the ICRC Delegation of the Pacific; Head of Office for ICRC Australia and in various roles with Australian Red Cross including Director of International Law and Strategy and National Manager of IHL.…
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